Inside Franklin County's James A. Karnes Corrections Center on Columbus' West Side, 35 men, all veterans of the U.S. military, sat at tables while a county sheriff's deputy told them about their ...

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A recent lawsuit alleges medical staff at a Franklin County jail did not perform required safety checks on a woman, resulting in her death, then falsified records to cover it ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The Franklin County Court of Common Pleas has a new pilot program designed to support convicted felons after they get out of prison. Called the reentry program, the goal is to ...

On any given night, about 16,500 people are held in Ohio's 89 jails and jailers book about 300,000 people each year - though some of them may be booked in multiple times. Jails are not the same as ...

On May 8, 1966, Franklin County jail inmates revolted against the conditions in the jail. Called the “Mother’s Day Riot” in The Columbus Dispatch, inmates smashed about fifty windows, ripped out two ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The man accused of shooting two Mifflin Township police officers in Mayu was booked into the Franklin County jail this week. Daveonte Dixon, 21, was indicted on two counts of ...

The mother of a woman who died of a fentanyl overdose while at the Franklin County jail has sued the company providing medical care, alleging it didn't perform required safety checks that might have ...